On Monday, Captain Morton and two other prominent critics of the academy wrote to 46 Congressional Democrats who had demanded an inquiry and said the task force had failed to do a thorough investigation. They said that Captain Morton was given only a cursory interview, and that the two other critics, Mikey Weinstein and Prof. Kristen Leslie of the Yale Divinity School, had not been interviewed at all.
Mr. Weinstein says he has been collecting complaints about religious intimidation at the academy for over a year, and Ms. Leslie spent a week there last summer assessing the chaplaincy's pastoral program at the invitation of the academy.
Ms. Stephens said a task force member did "contact" Mr. Weinstein, but he said he was only told to stop denigrating the task force.
"You know how many questions he asked me? Zero," he said.
Captain Morton has said that after sharing her misgivings about proselytizing with fellow chaplains and superiors, she received orders to deploy to Okinawa. Earlier this month, she was relieved of her position as executive officer.
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